"Mr. Feng, I have passed on the news of Xiangyi Iron Mine according to your words. Sima Zhaohua has been inquiring about the news of Xiangyi Iron Mine these days, and they all know about the failure of my iron mine. And Ling Yin Zhaoyang has not expressed his position now, will he feel scared when he sees Tao Qiu's strength? In Yangling's Yi Mansion, Yangwu asked Feng Tan next to him with a worried face.

Feng Tan smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to worry! The Zhao clan is strong in the Chu country, and there is a saying that the Zhao clan is half of the Chu country! Such a powerful family would not take Taoqiu's power in his eyes. Moreover, a Xiangyi iron ore mine comparable to the Yiyang Iron Mine in South Korea is of great importance to a family like the Zhao family, which has a vast area and many clansmen, and its importance is unimaginable! Even if there is some price to be paid for capturing the Xiangyi Iron Mine, the Zhao Clan is absolutely willing to bear it! ”

Sure enough, as soon as Feng Chen's words fell, a servant came to tell Yangwu that Sima Zhaohua was invited!

Yang Wu didn't leave for too long, but he went out for half an hour and came back again. As soon as he returned to the Yi Mansion, he said to Feng Chen: "Mr. is really clever! The Zhao clan has accepted my suggestion and is willing to send troops and horses to attack the Xiangyi iron mine. However, it seems that the Zhao clan is only willing to seize the Xiangyi iron mine, and is unwilling to make more progress. If that's the case, I'll not get any benefit from this war except for revenge! ”

Feng Tan sneered, and then said, "Yang Lingjun, you don't have to worry about whether there will be no benefits after this battle!" Xiangyi iron ore is very important to the Zhao clan, but for Taoqiu, isn't it important? Ziyan has such great power, if he doesn't fight back against Zhao's provocation, then I still doubt that he can deserve the reputation of a 'virtuous son' in the world." And such a counterattack will inevitably touch the entire Song State and even the surrounding forces, and even if the Song State can still exist at that time, it will definitely be impossible to maintain the name of such a medium power now. You are the closest feudal monarch of the Chu State to the Song State, so why worry about not being able to benefit from such a feast? ”

After Feng Tan said this, Yangwu also believed his words, and began to mobilize the power of the entire Yangling with all his might, ready to benefit in the future war!

Half a month later, it was already the coldest November, and Ling Yin Zhaoyang, who had returned to the capital of Yingdu of Chu, began to wage two wars after reporting to the king of Chu about the situation of the three-phase alliance.

Compared with the compulsory conscription system in the Spring and Autumn Period, in today's Warring States Period, the military systems of all countries in the world have undergone great changes. Each country has established a huge standing army, thus putting an end to the history of countries that could only wage large-scale wars in the spring and autumn!

The first war of Chu was against Wei and Korea, and at the initiative of Ling Yin Zhaoyang, the king of Chu levied a large number of military soldiers and local troops of the feudal monarchs located in the north, and gathered a total of nearly 100,000 troops to attack Han and Wei with great fanfare! Such a massive conquest, although the Chu state did not achieve much, put great pressure on the Wei state and Korea, and the two countries had to send a large number of troops to the southern border to assemble to resist the invasion of the Chu army.

And Wei Han's move also immediately brought about a chain reaction. Although the State of Qi did not sign an alliance with the State of Chu, it also had a tacit understanding to begin to attack the vassal state of Wei, and then went up the Jishui River to attack the Wei State itself!

At the same time, Qi also launched a diplomatic offensive and strongly rebuked Zhongshan for claiming the throne without authorization. The king of Qi directly protested strongly at the banquet of the envoys of the nations: "I am also the country of ten thousand times, and the country of Zhongshan is also the country of thousands of times, why is it named after me?" And intended to unite Yan and Zhao to abolish the Zhongshan Wang, although Yan and Zhao did not agree, but this private alliance has made Zhongshan have a strong sense of distrust towards Yan and Zhao. Later, in the proposal of the Wei State to jointly transfer troops of the five countries to defend Qi Chu, Zhongshan State was also afraid that it would be attacked by the Qi State if it did something absolutely necessary, so it directly refused!

In this way, the joint forces of the five countries will not be successful, and the joint alliance will be broken if it is not broken!

After getting this situation, the happiest person is naturally the Qin State! The King of Qin sent Zhang Yi to hold a three-phase alliance, hoping that Qi and Chu could work together with Qin to formulate a joint action plan for Hezhong. However, although the three-phase alliance ended in a breakdown of negotiations and even a bloody conflict, the purpose of the Qin State to hold the three-phase alliance was also achieved in a crooked manner!

Therefore, the Qin State was not polite at all, began the preparations for the war, and launched the war against the Wei State again! As the initiator of the joint alliance, and the Wei state, which was sandwiched between the three great powers of Qin, Qi, and Chu, the current situation is precarious. Within the Wei state, Gongsun Yan's strategy of cooperation and longitudinal planning was widely questioned. Under these circumstances, the pro-Qin faction and the pro-Chu faction within the Wei State launched a fierce struggle, and the foreign policy of the Wei State changed three times a day, forming a kind of "Chao Qin and Twilight Chu" spectacle in the whole world!

And the second war launched by the Chu State was an inconspicuous war, both within the Chu State and in the eyes of the people of the world at that time. Zhaoyang, as the initiator of this war, did not expect that this inconspicuous war would bring about such a huge change in the situation of the whole world later!

For this war, at that time, within the Chu State, after Yin Zhaoyang finished dealing with state affairs, he inadvertently said to the King of Chu: "On the border of Chu and Song, Yanglingjun and Song Xiangyi had some conflicts, and on the way back to China, Yanglingjun entertained me and hoped that the old minister could help him." The old minister couldn't wipe this face, so he agreed, I don't know what the king thinks? ”

At this time, the king of Chu happened to get a beautiful woman named Zheng Sleeve and canonized her as a concubine. For this king of Chu, who can dream of beautiful women when traveling and invented the idiom "Wushan Yunyu", the state gods and horses naturally do not have the comfort of beautiful women. Regarding this matter, he just instructed indifferently: "Such a trivial matter, let Yin deal with it himself." ”

Zhaoyang is not only the Ling Yin of the Chu State, but also the leader of the Zhao clan! Within the Chu State, the Zhao, Jing, and Qu families controlled the government of the Chu State, and Zhaoyang, who was the commander of the Chu State, had to negotiate and coordinate with the other two even if he wanted to mobilize the strength of the entire Chu State. And Zhaoyang's mobilization of the power of the Zhao family is far less laborious than his mobilization of the power of the Chu State!

If Zhaoyang was willing, he could have launched a war against Xiangyi in a very short time and ended it. However, after visiting Taoqiu in person, he also paid more attention to Taoqiu's strength, and at the same time, he didn't want the Zhao clan, which was the basic plate of his power, to lose too much in such a war!

He gave up his territories in Huainan and Huaibei to hoard grain and grass and accumulate weapons, and waited until December, and after more than a month of preparation, Zhaoyang launched a war against Xiangyi!

In the Xiangyi Iron Mine, Huan Liang was intoxicated and enjoying the wine offered to him by the Taoqiu merchants who came to Xiangyi. He is the nephew of Xiangyi Doctor Hengjie, and because of such an identity, he became the chief person in charge of the security of Xiangyi Iron Mine. Although most of the soldiers in charge of security in the Xiangyi Iron Mine were clan soldiers from the Xiangyi nobles and the guards invited by the Taoqiu merchants, he himself did not have much power to command these troops. However, since he can be a nominal head of security, he naturally still has a lot of power, which is why the Taoqiu merchant is willing to curry favor with him.

Today's Xiangyi Iron Mine has extremely strong guards! In the iron mine alone, there are nearly 1,000 guards and horses. In the coal mine near the iron mine and the ironworks located on the banks of Suishui, the force of guards exceeded 5,000 people. On the entire south bank of Suishui, a strong army of 6,000 people, plus their elite weapons, in Huan Liang's opinion, is almost invincible!

You must know that since their neighbor Yang Lingjun was defeated and returned, no one has dared to attack this place for several years. Why not enjoy a good drink in such a "safe" place?

He just thought so, and while enjoying himself, an arrow appeared in his eye. This arrow is strange and very different from the crossbow arrows mass-produced at the Taoqiu Military Factory. This arrow is so ugly, as soon as this thought flashed through Huan Jie's mind, he felt that his body was hit by something, which made him fall into great pain!

Then, more arrows shot towards this side, Huan Jie was hit continuously, and soon, he felt the strength of his whole body disappear, and then his consciousness gradually blurred, and the person also fell to the ground, not knowing anything.

"Enemy attack!" The people left in the iron mine who were not killed immediately understood what was happening, and they then raised the alarm!

Soon, a piercing bell sounded inside the entire iron mine, such a bell meant the strongest alarm! The guards inside the iron mine immediately reacted, their swords unsheathed, their crossbows wound, and they began to launch a counterattack against the enemy attacking from the outside! And in the entire iron mine, the most core defensive weapon, the bed crossbow, has also begun to operate, and the powerful and long-range crossbow arrows have begun to be fired!

Outside the iron mine, this attack was launched, hoping to hit the Xiangyi Iron Mine by surprise, but it was a young nobleman of the Chu State, who was Zhao Rat, the leader of the younger generation of the Zhao clan!

Seeing the failure of the surprise attack, the other party's reaction was also very fast, and Zhao Rat was not discouraged at all. He ordered someone to take out a defensive weapon specially prepared to deal with this attack: a wooden shield!

This wooden shield was 50 mm thick, and it was impossible for even a bed crossbow to shoot through such a wooden shield. With this kind of defensive weapon that specializes in dealing with strong crossbows, the crossbow arrows inside the iron mine quickly lost their effect, and the sneak attack of the Chu army quickly approached the iron mine.

Iron ore is not a city, and the Taoqiu merchants have no intention of building a city in order to transport ore more efficiently. Before the Chu army approached the iron mine, except for a few commanding heights that could throw some stones to hit the opponent, the guards in the iron mine no longer had any means of defense!

If you can't defend, then attack! Although the supreme commander in the iron mine was dead, neither the clan soldiers of Xiangyi nor the guards of the merchants had any intention of surrendering, and under the organization of the remaining nobles and the leaders of the guards, they drew their swords and spears to charge at the attacking Chu army.

The two sides fought near the iron mine, and soon the entire iron mine turned completely red!